Moving projects & clips from Mac HD to external HD

Hello. I am wondering if there is a safe way to move all of my projects and video clips to my external HD from my onboard HD? I can easily delete the iMovie folders from my HD and paste them onto my external drive, but I am afraid that is going to mess something up in iMovie. If anyone can give me some instructions and precautions, that would be wonderful! Thanks

I am wondering if there is a safe way to move all of my projects and video clips to my external HD from my onboard HD?
Try this:
a) Events not in Project use - "Command-Drag" Events from the Event Lribrary internal drive llist and drop them to an external drive in your Event Library list.

b) Active Projects - "Command-Drag" Projects in the Project Library list from the source drive to your target drive in the Project Labrary list and then select the "Move Project & Events" option to move both to the external drive.


NOTE: Do not just drag Event and/or Projects as this performs a "copy" action -- i.e., it creates two copies of the files and does not update active reference pointers.

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